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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 11 Feb 2014 16:28:07 GMT
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On 2014-02-11, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
>
> English, of course, is not a phoenetic language.  Which makes the 
> perennial movement to try to teach reading through "phonics" very funny.  
> In English you can't even spell "phonetic" phonetically.  You can even 
> end up spelling "fish" as "photi."

Those of us who actually learned English phonetics are laughing at your
silly statements. You should try to know something about a topic before
forming opinions about it.

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